Border Patrol agents dropped off asylum-seeking migrants in New Mexico’s second most populous city for the second day in a row Saturday, prompting Las Cruces city officials to appeal for donations of food and personal hygiene items and a state medical program to seek volunteers to provide health assessments of migrants.
The migrants were being temporarily housed at a homeless shelter in Las Cruces, a city recreation center and a campus of social service agencies, city officials said in a statement.
The statement said 83 migrants arrived Saturday, following about 95 who were dropped off by the Border Patrol on Friday at the Gospel Rescue Mission homeless shelter and the Community of Hope campus.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reported Las Cruces churches for months have been providing temporary shelter to migrants released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention but that Friday was the first time that the Border Patrol vans dropped off migrants at the homeless shelter.
City spokesman Udell Vigil said Saturday that migrants could be arriving “for the next several days.”
Las Cruces is not a sanctuary city that rebuffs federal officials carrying out deportation orders.
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All the more reason to send them to a sanctuary city to help with the burden. No brainer.
ReplyDeleteSend their asses back across the border, it's not our problem.
ReplyDeleteBy reason that they call themselves sanctuary cities, they are prepared to accept any and all of those who need the "sanctuary".
ReplyDeleteTest them with real-world activities, rather than in-your-face empty statements.
Punish Mexico for letting them thru, for Pete's Sake ! Why is everything so complicated ! There are laws for legal immigration . Follow them.
ReplyDeleteThe college NMSU has plenty of food!
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